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Suddenly disenchanted with the ineffectual, corrupt administration of his Premier, Bahjat Talhouni, Hussein fired his entire government. As his new Premier, Hussein chose a tough ex-army officer, Wasfi Tal, 41, who promptly gathered an entirely new Jordanian team, including six graduates from such institutions as Yale and Princeton. Like the King, he was obviously impressed by Washington. Said Wasfi fal: "We are beginning a New Frontier for Jordan...
...graduate of Beirut's American University, fought as a British army captain during the war, later served for a spell in the Syrian army, returned to Jordan to become a civil servant. In the tax department. Wasfi Tal is remembered with awe for trying to make rich Jordanians pay their taxes. In the last ten years he has served, intermittently, as a Jordanian diplomat all over the Middle East, and adversaries loudly claim that he fomented anti-government plots in Syria. Lebanon and Iraq...
Obviously trying to reduce resentment all around, the new Premier declared a moratorium on Jordan's anti-Nasser broadcasts, proclaimed a widespread political amnesty. He also ordered a probe of Jordanian officials suspected of corruption, promised to devote more care to the problems of the country's Palestinian population. All this pleased the unruly Palestinians, who saw other good omens: a heavy rainfall will mean good crops for 1962, and Wasfi's appointment coincided with the birth of Hussein's first son, Prince Abdullah, borne him by his 20-year-old British wife Toni...
...week before the Faculty Committee decision, the PBH cabinet voted 13-1 in favor of the project despite the Jordanian government's determination to exclude Jews from the country...
...support your editorial stand on the question of Project Jarba. To be sure, I fail to see what the Jordanian government hopes to accomplish by refusing to let Jews into the country, but since Israel has been known to confuse being a Jew with being a potential Israeli it is not surprising that some of the Arab countries have come to make the same mistake. Perhaps the day will come when Israel will stop campaigning to get all Jews to come and live there, and perhaps some day the Arab countries will stop waging war against Israel, and righteousness, justice...